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MOSCOW DESIGN MUSEUM

The Museum was founded in 2012 and is the first cultural institution in Russia specifically dedicated to design. The museum’s founders see their main objectives to be the popularization of national design at home and abroad, the collection and preservation of Russia’s design heritage and the introduction of Russian viewers to the best examples and main schools of international design.

So far, the museum has successfully organized exhibition projects in some of the most prominent spaces in Russia, including the Central Exhibition Hall “Manege” and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The museum’s team has also organized international projects such as “Soviet Design, 1950-1980’s” exhibition at Design Week in Beijing (2013) and in Kunsthal Rotterdam (2015). In 2016 the museum’s exhibition “Discovering Utopia: Lost Archives of Soviet Design” took part in the first London Biennale of Design (Somerset House, London) and was awarded the medal of the Biennale for the best response to the topic.

To further the goal of education and promotion of design the Museum is creating a series of documentary films for TV Channel “Culture”, including “Holland – territory of design”, “Design for everyone. Sweden”, “British Design. Traditions and innovations”, “Great Danish Designers”, “History of Russian design”.

The museum focuses on the use of the latest information technologies and non-typical museological exhibiting strategies such as, for example, a mobile exhibition hall situated in a multimedia equipped bus.